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Webster 1913 Edition

monstrance

mon′strance

(mŏn-strans)

,

Noun.

[LL.

monstrantia

, fr. L.

monstrare

to show: cf. OF.

monstrance

. See

.]

(R. C. Ch.)

A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.